CYPRIPEDIUM. 26b 



C. HERMIONE, O'Brien. — A distinct and dwarf-growing novelty which was 

 flowered by Reginald Young, Esq., of Liverpool. It is a cross between G. 

 Spicermnuni and C. barbatum Warnci-ii. Mr. O'Brien describes it thus : — "The 

 leaves are vei-y pale green with a light tracery of dark green ; the flower-stems 

 about 6 inches in height. The beautiful pure white upper sepal of the flower is 

 nearly 2J inches broad by 1| inch long, and it has a bright green base, a purple 

 liue up the centre, and shaded rose-purple veining extending over the basal half. 

 The horizontally extended petals are greenish- white with a rose-coloured tinge 

 and some lines of chocolate dots at their bases. The lip greenish^white, tinged 

 on the face with reddish-brown ; the lower sepal whitish with green lines " 

 (Gardeners Chronide, 3rd ser., 1893, xiv. p. 682). — Garden hybrid. • 



C. HIRSUTISSIMUM, Lindley.—A. beautiful bold-habited species of the stem- 

 less section. It has pale green distichous elongate ligulato cariuate leaves, a 

 foot or more in length, and glabrous. The flowers proceed from the centre of 

 the young growths, on green hairy scapes a foot long, the whole back of the 

 flower densely hirsute, the sepals being, all ciliated. Tlie dorsal sepal is 

 rhomboidal-cordate, dark purplish- green with a broad green margin; the petals 

 are large, broadly spathulate, very blunt, ciliated, the narrowed claw-like base 

 undulated, green dotted with purple, the front part wholly purple ; and the lip 

 large, deep green tinged with purple. The blossoms, which often measure 

 6 inches across, open in March, April, and May, and last six weeks in perfection. 

 — India : Bhotan, Assam. 



Fig.— Hot. Mag., t.i990; liatem. Second Cant. Orch. Pl.,t.li9; Flore clcs S.-rn:i,i. 

 l-tSO; Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., i. t. 1.5 ; Xeiiia Orch., ii. t. 132; Belg. Ilort., vil. p. 3.53. 

 with tal). ; VeitcKs J/iiii. Orch. PL, iv. p. 30 ; Journ. of Hurt., 1887, xiv. p. 293, f. 52. 



C. HOOKERAE, Mnlib.f. — One of the dwarfer stemless section, the leaves of 

 which are most beautifully variegated, being of a bright dark green, finely 

 tessellated with irregular yellowish-green spots or bands ; they are broadly 

 oblong-ligulate, and fleshy-coriaceous in texture. The flowers are somewhat 

 deficient in size compared with others, acd, if not very showy, are certainly 

 pretty ; the sepals are yellowish with a green centre ; the petals spreading, 

 ciliate, spathulate, the narrow part undulated, green with small purple spots, 

 and the upper part acute, rosy -purple ; and the lip is green suffused with dull 

 purplish-brown. The staminode is purple with pale margins. — Borneo. 



Fig.— B It. Maa., t. 53S2; Batem. Second Cent. Orrli. Pl.,t. 123; Flore des Scrrc.-:. 

 t. 1565; Xeni% Orch., ii. t. 141 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PI., iv. p. 31. 



C. HOOKERAE BULLENIANUM, Rchb. /.—This is a variety of C. Hookerae, 

 with which species it was originally imported. It differs in having leaves less 

 distinctly marbled than the type, and in the flowers being smaller, and inferior 

 in colour. Flowers in March and April. — North Borneo. 



C. HOOKERAE VOLONTEANUNI, 2?oZ/e.— This distinct variety was intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Low & Co. The leaves are shorter, narrower, and more rigid 

 than in the type ; the flower is larger and more brilliantly coloured in all its 

 parts. We recently saw an importation of this in flower, and we noticed there 

 was a great variety. A variety called gitjanteum- has been flgured in the 

 Journal of Horticulture, 1893, xxvii. p. 27, f. 4. — Borneo. 



